A new study led by Shaena Montanari, a recent graduate of the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School and a comparative biologist, may help researchers understand why massive marsupials in Australia became extinct.

In January 2013, Museum Curator Christopher Raxworthy set out on a Constantine S. Niarchos Expedition to several island groups in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles off of Africa’s eastern coast, to survey reptile species. Watch a video about the trip.